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AMERICAN 

ANTIQUARIAN 

SOCIETY 


HANDBOOK 

OF 

INFORMATION 


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WORCESTER,   MASS.,  U.S.A. 
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1909 


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THE  AMERICAN  ANTIQUARIAN  SOCIETY,  which  in  1912  will 
celebrate  its  one  hundredth  anniversary,  exists  to-day  as  one  of  the 
oldest  national  institutions  in  the  country.  In  October,  1812, 
Isaiah  Thomas  of  Worcester,  Mass.,  with  five  associates,  petitioned 
the  Massachusetts  legislature  to  establish  a  society  whose  chief 
object  should  be  the  collecting  and  preserving  the  materials  for  a 
study  of  American  history  and  antiquities.  It  was  the  expressed 
intention  of  the  founders  to  form  a  society  which  should  be  "truly 
beneficial,  not  only  to  the  present,  but  particularly  to  future  gen- 
erations —  a  society  not  confined  to  local  purposes,  not  intended 
for  the  particular  advantage  of  any  one  State  or  section  of  the  Union, 
or  for  the  benefit  of  a  few  individuals  —  one  whose  members  may 
be  found  in  every  part  of  our  western  continent  and  its  adjacent 
islands,  and  who  are  citizens  of  all  parts  of  this  quarter  of  the 
world." 

On  October  24,  1812,  the  Society  was  incorporated.  It  was 
decided  that  beyond  the  reason  of  the  reside'nce  of  the  founder, 
it  was  best  to  locate  the  building  of  the  Society  at  an  inland  rather 
than  a  coast  town.  As  Thomas  says,  "For  the  better  preservation 
from  the  destruction  so  often  experienced  in  large  towns  and  cities 
by  fire,  as  well  as  from  the  ravages  of  an  enemy,  to  which  seaports 
in  particular  are  so  much  exposed  in  time  of  war,  it  is  universally 
agreed  that  for  a  place  of  deposit  for  articles  intended  to  be  pre- 
served for  ages,  and  of  which  many,  if  destroyed  or  carried  away, 
could  never  be  replaced  by  others  of  the  like  kind,  an  inland  situa- 
tion is  to  be  preferred;  this  consideration  alone  was  judged  sufficient 
for  placing  the  Library  and  Museum  of  this  Society  forty  miles 
distant  from  the  nearest  branch  of  the  sea,  in  the  town  of  Worcester, 
Massachusetts. " 

The  Society  had  exceptional  opportunities  to  acquire  material 

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at  the  outset  through  the  munificence  of  its  founder.  Isaiah 
Thomas  is  justly  entitled  to  rank  with  the  most  liberal-minded  men 
of  his  period.  His  journalistic  activity  during  his  early  manhood 
had  placed  his  name  high  in  the  lists  of  Revolutionary  patriots, 
his  eminence  as  a  printer  had  earned  him  the  sobriquet  of  the 
"Baskerville  of  America,"  his  two-volume  "History  of  Printing 
in  America"  was  a  work  of  exceptional  scholarship  and  impor- 
tance, and  his  learning,  broad-mindedness,  and  philanthropy  were 
constantly  in  evidence.  Familiarity  with  the  work  of  similar 
institutions  in  Europe  had  long  made  him  desirous  of  establishing 
in  this  country  a  society  which  should  have  for  its  great  aim  the 
collecting  and  preserving  of  the  materials  of  our  national  history. 
And  when  the  time  came  for  the  fruition  of  his  plans,  he  gave 
liberally  both  money  and  books  that  the  Society  might  have  a 
beginning  worthy  of  its  name. 

The  first  meeting  of  the  Society  was  held  at  the  Exchange  Coffee 
House  in  Boston,  November  19,  1812,  when  organization  was 
effected  with  Mr.  Thomas  as  President.  At  the  following  meet- 
ing in  February,  other  officers  were  chosen  and  the  announcement 
was  made  of  the  gift, .of  the  President's  own  library,  one  of  the 
largest  private  collections  of  Americana  then  existing  in  the  country. 
Immediately  a  call  was  made  for  gifts.  "Among  the  articles  of 
deposit,"  reads  the  1813  report,  "books  of  every  description, 
including  pamphlets  and  magazines,  especially  those  which  were 
early  printed  either  in  South  or  in  North  America;  files  of  News- 
papers of  former  times,  or  of  the  present  day,  are  particularly 
desirable  —  as  are  specimens,  with  written  accounts  respecting 
them,  of  fossils,  handicrafts  of  the  Aborigines,  etc.;  manuscripts, 
ancient  and  modern,  on  interesting  subjects,  particularly  those 
which  give  accounts  of  remarkable  events,  discoveries,  or  the  de- 
scription of  any  part  of  the  continent,  or  the  islands  in  the  Ameri- 
can seas;  maps,  charts,  etc." 

The  results  of  such  an  appeal  were  soon  apparent.  The  Bent- 
ley  collection,  the  library  of  the  Mathers,  and  other  gifts  of  im- 
portance so  increased  the  Library  that  by  1820  it  amounted  to  more 
than  5000  volumes.  Up  to  this  date  it  had  been  kept  in  the 
President's  mansion.  In  the  year  1820,  through  the  generosity 
of  Mr.  Thomas,  a  building  was  erected,  "  highly  ornamental  as  a 


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publick  edifice,  and  well  calculated  to  give  respectability  and 
permanency  to  the  Institution."  It  is  now  standing,  though  in  a 
dilapidated  condition,  on  its  original  site  on  Summer  Street. 

Isaiah  Thomas  died  on  April  4,  1831.  To  the  time  of  his  death 
he  manifested  a  keen  desire  to  work  in  behalf  of  the  Society.  By 
the  terms  of  his  will  he  gave  it  funds  for  various  purposes  amount- 
ing to  twenty-four  thousand  dollars.  His  entire  gifts,  including 
books,  land,  building,  and  funds,  amounted  to  about  fifty  thou- 
sand dollars. 

The  most  significant  event  in  the  history  of  the  Society,  following 
Mr.  Thomas's  death,  was  the  appointment  of  Christopher  Colum- 
bus Baldwin  as  permanent  Librarian  in  1832.  To  scarcely  anyone 
aside  from  the  founder  does  the  Society  owe  so  much  in  its  early 
days.  Possessing  true  antiquarian  tastes,  gifted  with  the  ability 
to  elicit  the  interest  of  others,  and  imbued  with  a  zeal  that  was 
extraordinary,  he  gave  three  all  too  short  years  to  the  upbuilding 
of  the  Library.  He  wrote  letters  to  authors  prominent  and  obscure, 
and  when  that  failed,  made  personal  appeals.  His  Diary,  a  docu- 
ment of  unusual  interest  throughout,  shows  in  numerous  entries 
his  peculiar  qualifications  for  his  position.  In  1834  Thomas 
Wallcut  of  Boston  presented  to  the  Society  his  collection  of  pam- 
phlets and  newspapers.  Its  acquisition  is  graphically  told  by 
Baldwin.  Under  date  of  August  2,  1834,  he  says:  "I  called  on 
Mr.  Wallcut  this  morning,  and  he  went  with  me  to  India  Street, 
where  the  pamphlets,  etc.,  of  his  uncle  were  deposited.  They  were 
in  the  fourth  story  of  an  oil  store,  where  they  had  been  placed  about 
four  months  ago.  They  were  put  in  ancient  trunks,  bureaus,  and 
chests,  baskets,  tea  chests  and  old  drawers,  and  presented  a  very 
odd  appearance.  The  extent  of  them  was  altogether  beyond  my 
expectations.  I  went  immediately  to  work  to  putting  them  in 
order  for  transporting  to  Worcester.  Every  thing  was  covered 
with  venerable  dust,  and  as  I  was  under  a  slated  roof  and  the 
thermometer  at  ninety-three,  I  had  a  pretty  hot  time  of  it.  Noth- 
ing but  a  love  of  such  work  could  inspire  any  man  to  labor  in  such 
a  place.  The  value  of  the  rarities  I  found,  however,  soon  made 
me  forget  the  heat,  and  I  have  never  seen  such  happy  moments. 
Every  thing  I  opened  discovered  to  my  eyes  some  unexpected  treas- 
ure. Great  numbers  of  the  productions  of  our  early  authors  were 


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turned  up  at  every  turn.  I  could  hardly  persuade  myself  that  it 
was  not  all  a  dream,  and  I  applied  myself  with  all  industry  to 
packing,  lest  capricious  fortune  should  snatch  something  from  my 
hands."  His  inopportune  death  in  August,  1835,  at  the  very 
outset  of  a  promising  career,  was  a  great  blow  to  the  Society  whose 
affairs  he  was  administering  with  such  signal  ability. 

During  Baldwin's  incumbency  the  building  of  the  Society  had 
been  enlarged.  In  1832,  two  wings,  each  25  by  20  feet,  were 
erected,  thus  providing  much  needed  room.  The  Council  Report 
of  1833  speaks  of  the  building  as  now  "convenient  for  the  purposes 
of  appropriation,  neat  and  elegant  in  appearance,  alike  useful  for 
the  Society  and  ornamental  to  the  town. " 

Scarcely  twenty  years  passed  before  this  building  was  outgrown. 
In  1838  Samuel  Foster  Haven  was  appointed  Librarian  of  the 
Society,  and  during  the  incumbency  of  this  careful  administrator 
and  distinguished  scholar  the  collection  experienced  rapid  growth. 
In  1853,  a  new  building,  50  by  80  feet,  of  brick  with  freestone 
trimmings,  designed  by  Thomas  A.  Tefft,  was  erected  at  a  cost  of 
$18,000.  Enlarged  in  1877  by  an  addition  of  51  by  46  feet,  at  a 
cost  of  $12,700,  it  lasted  half  a  century  before  it  was  outgrown. 

In  1854  Stephen  Salisbury,  whose  interest  in  the  Society  had 
been  previously  evidenced  by  his  gift  of  the  land  upon  which  the 
building  stood,  was  chosen  President  of  the  Society.  For  thirty 
years  he  served  in  this  office,  advancing  the  interests  of  the  Society 
by  the  performance  of  many  duties  and  by  frequent  gifts  to  its 
funds.  A  student  as  well  as  a  man  of  affairs,  he  administered  the 
concerns  of  the  institution  with  wisdom  and  a  thorough  regard  for 
the  future. 

During  the  administration  of  Stephen  Salisbury  the  Library 
had  greatly  increased.  From  a  collection  of  23,000  volumes  in 
1854  it  had  become  a  library  of  80,000  volumes  in  1884.  In  com- 
mon with  other  New  England  institutions  it  had  benefited  largely 
by  the  dispersal  of  the  Brinley  and  Cooke  libraries.  Special  funds 
were  established  to  enable  it  to  add  systematically  to  its  various 
collections.  Under  these  conditions  of  present  and  prospective 
prosperity,  it  was  fortunate  for  the  Society  that  it  could  enlist  the 
services  of  so  able  a  patron  as  Stephen  Salisbury,  Jr.  In  1887, 
three  years  after  his  father's  death,  he  was  chosen  President  of  the 


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Society,  and  remained  in  office  until  his  death  in  1905.  Through- 
out these  eighteen  years  he  carried  out  the  ideals  set  by  his  father, 
familiarizing  himself  with  all  the  details  of  the  work  of  the  Society, 
and  recording  his  faith  in  its  future  by  the  generous  bequest  of  his 
private  library,  a  portion  of  his  real  estate  and  the  sum  of  $200,000. 
Next  to  its  founder,  the  Society 'owes  to  no  one  so  deep  a  debt  of 
gratitude. 

The  past  three  years  have  been  eventful  in  the  history  of  the 
Society.  With  increased  funds  the  institution  immediately  en- 
tered upon  an  enlarged  field  of  usefulness.  Waldo  Lincoln  of 
Worcester,  whose  family  and  ancestral  ties  connected  him  in 
every  way  with  the  Society,  was  chosen  President  in  1907.  En- 
dowed with  liberal  views  and  a  broad  mind,  he  has  sought  from  the 
first  to  fulfill  the  thought  expressed  in  one  of  the  early  Reports  of 
the  Society  that  "our  Institution,  in  all  its  objects  and  concerns, 
is  intended  and  considered  as  National. "  In  his  desire  to  broaden 
the  scope  of  the  printed  publications,  to  maintain  a  high  standard 
of  papers  read  before  the  Society,  to  demand  increased  care  in  the 
election  of  new  members,  to  make  known  the  valuable  manuscript 
material  in  the  Library,  to  specialize  in  the  purchasing  of  books 
along  those  lines  where  the  Library  is  strong,  to  provide  that  the 
new  building  to  be  erected  shall  be  constructed  with  an  eye  far 
into  the  future  —  in  all  these  things,  he  has  laid  the  foundations 
of  increased  prosperity  and  growth. 

THE  LIBRARY. 

The  library  of  the  Antiquarian  Society,  according  to  a  count 
made  in  1908,  possesses  about  99,000  volumes.  It  is  one  of  the 
great  libraries  of  the  country  for  students  of  American  history  and 
allied  subjects,  ranking  in  the  field  of  American-printed  books 
with  the  Lenox  Library,  the  John  Carter  Brown  Library,  and  the 
Library  of  Congress. 

It  is  in  the  productions  of  the  early  American  press  that  the 
library  is  especially  strong.  The  attempt  is  made  to  collect 
everything  printed  in  America  before  1820,  this  date  having  been 
chosen  because  it  includes  the  establishment  of  printing-presses 
in  most  of  the  older  towns,  because  it  covers  the  interesting  Jef- 


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fersonian  period,  the  War  of  1812  and  the  ensuing  period  of 
national  reorganization,  and  partly  because  it  is  to  be  the  final 
date  of  Evans's  great  "American  Bibliography,''  already  published 
through  the  year  1778.  An  estimate  based  on  bibliographies  and 
book-lists  already  issued,  seems  to  show  that  the  total  output  of 
the  United  States  press  to  the  year  1820  would  number  75,000 
titles,  with  perhaps  40,000  titles  published  before  1800.  The 
library  probably  has  over  one-third  of  these  titles  at  the  present 
time,  and  a  systematic  attempt  to  acquire  some  portion  of  what 
we  lack  would  have  decided  results.  The  value  of  such  a  collection 
for  the  student  of  early  American  history,  literature,  law,  medicine, 
theology,  education,  science,  and  all  other  subjects  cannot  be 
overestimated. 

Of  the  "incunabula"  of  American  printing,  the  library  has  over 
200  examples.  On  the  fly  leaf  of  the  desk  copy  of  the  1837  Cata- 
logue appears  this  note  in  Dr.  Haven's  handwriting:  "In  looking 
over  the  Catalogue,  Mr.  Brinley  found  186  works  printed  in  this 
Country  before  1700.  He  thinks  there  were  not  more  than  300 
printed,  and  this  library  contains  a  far  larger  proportion  than  any 
other.  Mr.  Brinley  has  made  this  matter  a  subject  of  investiga- 
tion." As  our  collection  has  since  increased,  so  has  the  Brinley 
estimate.  The  list  published  by  Dr.  Haven,  Jr.,  in  1874  numbers 
over  600  titles  of  the  i7th  century,  and  Evans  in  his  Bibliography 
lists  967  imprints.  Among  the  more  interesting  titles  in  our  collec- 
tion are  both  editions  of  Eliot's  "Indian  Bible,"  several  early 
Indian  tracts,  the  "Bay  Psalm  Book"  of  1640,  the  early  editions  of 
the  Cambridge  Platform,  and  Secretary  Rawson's  copy  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts Laws  of  1660. 

The  foundation  of  this  collection  of  early  imprints  was  the  library 
of  the  Mathers,  obtained  partly  from  Hannah  Mather  Crocker 
and  partly  from  a  purchase  made  by  Isaiah  Thomas.  Under 
date  of  November  n,  1814,  Thomas  records  in  his  diary:  "Pur- 
chased the  remains  of  the  old  library  of  the  Mathers,  which  had 
belonged  to  Drs.  Increase  and  Samuel  Mather.  This  is  unques- 
tionably the  oldest  in  New  England."  The  early  New  England 
publications  of  the  Mather  family  number  about  600  titles,  and  of 
this  number  the  Society  possesses  approximately  400.  This  show- 
ing is  approached  only  by  the  Lenox  Library,  the  John  Carter 


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Brown  Library,  and  the  Massachusetts  Historical  Society.  Two 
other  early  libraries  which  made  notable  additions  to  our  collec- 
tions were  those  owned  by  Thomas  Wallcut  and  by  Rev.  William 
Bentley. 

Other  subjects  in  which  the  library  is  especially  strong  are 
early  law  including  text-books,  early  American  Bibles,  hymn  books 
and  psalm  books,  Indian  linguistics,  and  the  early  publications  of 
the  United  States  government.  The  collection  of  school  books  is 
probably  the  largest  in  the  country  and  has  been  the  object  of 
much  study  and  research.  American  almanacs  are  very  strongly 
represented,  numbering  perhaps  4000  issues  before  the  year  1850, 
and  showing  a  majority  of  those  published  in  the  iyth  century. 

In  common  with  other  large  libraries  of  Americana,  the 
Society  has  a  fair  collection  of  genealogy  —  about  2000  family 
histories  —  and  a  very  large  collection  of  local  history,  in  which, 
however,  the  West  is  inadequately  represented. 

A  recently  established  and  rapidly  growing  department  is  that  de- 
voted to  Spanish-Americana.  By  means  of  a  large  fund  established 
by  Isaac  and  Edward  L.  Davis,  and  through  the  personal  efforts 
of  Stephen  Salisbury,  Jr.,  the  works  on  Mexico,  Central  and  South 
America  are  becoming  an  important  feature  of  the  library.  At 
present  the  collection  is  strongest  in  antiquities  of  Central  America, 
Mexican  Indian  dialects,  early  Mexican  imprints,  and  bibliog- 
raphy. The  Society  would  have  the  field  of  Americana  well 
covered  if  it  possessed  funds  which  allowed  it  to  improve  its 
Canadiana  and  its  works  on  Arctic  discovery. 

There  are  few  libraries  in  America  so  well  provided  with  the 
ephemeral  in  literature.  So  far  as  concerns  pamphlets,  there  has 
always  been  a  general  disposition  to  treat  them  in  the  same  way  as 
books,  to  bind  each  separately  and  place  it  in  its  appropriate  classi- 
fication. This  theory  it  has  so  far  been  impossible  to  carry  out, 
but  it  is  hoped  that  within  a  few  years  the  library  will  be  able  to 
fulfill  the  idea  well  expressed  by  Justin  Winsor  in  his  Harvard 
Library  Report  for  1878:  —  "There  are  no  considerations  except 
economy  for  treating  pamphlets  other  than  books;  and  the  users 
of  a  library  are  never  thoroughly  equipped  for  investigation  so  long 
as  any  distinction  is  made  between  them. " 

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worthy  of  especial  mention  are  the  1690  Proclamation  by  the 
Governor  and  Council  of  Massachusetts  regarding  the  first  news- 
paper "  Publick  Occurrences, "  a  considerable  number  of  Fast  and 
Thanksgiving  Proclamations,  and  three  volumes  of  songs  and 
ballads  of  the  War  of  1812.  Maps,  views,  and  portraits,  especially 
the  rare  early  specimens,  are  represented  in  large  number,  and 
there  is  an  excellent  collection  of  colonial  and  continental  paper 
currency.  These  latter  collections,  however,  need  reclassifying  and 
arranging  to  admit  of  easy  examination. 

NEWSPAPERS. 

It  is  for  its  collection  of  newspapers  that  the  library  of  the 
American  Antiquarian  Society  is  undoubtedly  most  frequently 
consulted.  The  first  permanent  newspaper  published  in  this 
country  was  the  Boston  News  Letter,  established  in  1704.  From 
this  date  up  to  1800  the  library  possesses  nearly  600  bound  volumes 
of  papers.  As  long  ago  as  the  year  1839  there  were  1251  volumes 
of  newspapers  in  the  library,  and  to-day  the  number  totals  about 
7000. 

The  founder  of  the  Society,  Isaiah  Thomas,  had  exceptional 
opportunities  to  acquire  colonial  newspapers.  As  editor  of  the 
Massachusetts  Spy,  one  of  the  important  newspapers  of  the 
country,  he  exchanged  with  the  publishers  of  other  newspapers. 
In  the  preparation  of  his  work  on  the  History  of  Printing  in 
America,  published  in  1810,  largely  a  history  of  the  newspaper 
press,  he  took  pains  to  obtain  files  or  specimen  issues  of  all  the 
newspapers  in  the  country.  The  collection  made  by  him  at  that 
time  and  turned  over  to  the  library  of  the  Society  has  not  been 
since  equaled.  In  western  papers  it  is  almost  as  well  represented 
as  in  those  of  the  East.  Dr.  Reuben  G.  Thwaites,  in  the  bibliog- 
raphy of  early  western  newspapers  appended  to  his  monograph 
on  the  "  Ohio  Valley  Press  before  the  War  of  1812-15,"  notes  that 
of  the  early  press  of  Kentucky,  Ohio,  Indiana,  Missouri,  and 
western  Pennsylvania,  the  American  Antiquarian  Society  is  repre- 
sented by  sixty  different  newspapers,  while  the  Ebeling  collection 
at  Harvard  University  shows  files  of  thirty-nine  papers,  the  Library 
of  Congress  twenty-five,  and  the  Wisconsin  Historical  Society 


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twelve.  Newspapers,  like  broadsides,  unless  preserved  by  collect- 
ors at  the  time  of  issue,  are  exceedingly  difficult  to  acquire. 

Among  the  longer  of  the  early  files  are  those  of  the  New  Hamp- 
shire Gazette,  the  Boston  News  Letter,  the  Boston  Gazette,  the 
Massachusetts  Spy,  the  Newport  Mercury,  the  Providence  Gazette, 
the  Connecticut  Courant,  the  New  York  Weekly  Journal,  the 
New  Jersey  Gazette,  the  American  Weekly  Mercury,  the  Pennsyl- 
vania Gazette,  and  the  Maryland  Journal.  The  period  in  which 
the  collection  is  most  weak  is  that  of  1830-1850,  and  steps  are  now 
being  taken  to  remedy  that  defect. 

The  plan  of  collecting  comprehends  the  acquiring  of  files  of  all 
American  newspapers  through  the  period  of  the  Civil  War.  Since 
1870  only  the  papers  of  a  few  of  the  leading  cities  are  preserved  and 
bound.  In  this  way  about  two  dozen  journals,  representing 
various  sections  of  the  country,  will  be  kept  for  the  use  of  future 
students  and  to  maintain  the  national  character  of  this  great 
collection. 

MANUSCRIPTS.* 

The  manuscript  department  of  a  historical  library  is  one  of  its 
most  important  divisions.  Evidence  is  not  lacking  that  Isaiah 
Thomas,  the  father  of  the  American  Antiquarian  Society,  prized 
highly  the  collection  of  manuscripts  which  he  had  gathered,  and  a 
like  interest  is  shown  by  Librarian  Baldwin  in  his  stewardship  and 
by  all  officials  and  well  wishers  of  the  Society  to-day.  The  differ- 
ence in  the  size  and  character  of  the  collection  from  that  of  a  cen- 
tury ago  is  a  welcome  illustration  of  the  Society's  growth.  From  a 
few  groups  of  manuscripts  chiefly  of  a  local  or  personal  character 
there  has  succeeded  a  collection  of  over  35,000  pieces  largely 
national  in  its  scope. 

Among  the  manuscripts  of  the  Society  mention  will  be  first  made 
of  the  group  centering  about  its  founder,  Isaiah  Thomas.  Here 
are  interleaved  almanacs  from  1774  to  1828  containing  the  diary 
of  Thomas  from  1805  and  a  volume  of  some  200  letters  to  Thomas. 
Additional  correspondence  is  scattered  through  other  groups  of 
manuscripts,  and  all  these  papers  are  exclusive  of  his  official  files 
of  letters  as  first  President  of  the  Society.  Thomas  was  a  national 

*  Prepared  by  Charles  Henry  Lincoln,  in  charge  of  manuscripts. 


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figure  of  his  time.  In  the  correspondence  of  few  editors  of  to-day 
is  there  so  large  a  proportion  filled  with  notes  regarding  matters  of 
national  concern. 

The  earliest  period  in  the  Society's  archives  is  well  represented 
by  the  diary  of  John  Hull,  Mint-master  of  Massachusetts  in  1652, 
the  notebook  of  Thomas  Lechford  of  Boston,  1638-1641,  and  most 
important  of  all,  the  manuscripts  of  the  Mather  family.  This 
voluminous  collection  comprises  several  hundred  manuscripts  and 
includes  letters,  diaries,  sermons,  and  essays.  For  Richard  Mather 
there  are  several  important  papers  on  church  government  from 
1635  to  1657  and  a  large  number  of  manuscript  sermons.  For 
Increase  Mather  there  are  his  diaries  for  1659,  1664-1667,  1680- 
1684,  1688-1689,  1693-1699,  1702,  1704,  1705,  1717,  and  1721, 
written  closely  in  interleaved  almanacs,  his  autobiography  written 
for  his  children,  and  a  few  miscellaneous  essays.  Cotton  Mather 
is  represented  by  diaries  for  the  years  1692,  1696,  1699,  1703,  1709, 
1711,  1713,  and  1717,  nearly  three  hundred  letters,  and  many 
interesting  treatises  on  religion,  theology,  medicine,  and  morals. 
Included  also  in  the  collection  are  a  few  manuscripts  of  less  noted 
members  of  the  Mather  family.  Within  the  following  year  it  is 
probable  that  a  large  portion  of  the  material  that  relates  to  Cotton 
and  Increase  Mather  will  be  published. 

Of  no  less  importance  are  the  Curwen  manuscripts.  Aside  from 
several  volumes  of  notes  and  accounts  this  collection  contains 
over  noo  individual  manuscripts  grouped  about  the  Corwin  or 
Curwen  family  from  1640  to  1775.  Among  other  than  Curwen 
autographs  in  this  group  are  many  of  Samuel  Sewall,  Robert  Hale, 
Sir  William  Pepperrell,  Governor  William  Shirley,  and  other 
leaders  in  the  French  War. 

Closely  allied  to  the  latter  portion  of  this  collection  are  the 
several  groups  of  manuscripts  in  the  Society's  archives  dealing  with 
the  long  struggle  between  England  and  France  for  the  possession 
of  the  American  continent.  Prominent  among  these  are  numerous 
miscellaneous  muster  rolls  and  papers  from  1726  to  1731,  Robert 
Hale's  journal  of  his  voyage  to  Nova  Scotia  in  the  latter  year,  and, 
most  important  for  the  period  of  the  minor  wars,  Sir  William 
Pepperrell's  Journal  of  his  Expedition  against  Louisbourg  in  1745. 
For  this  attack  several  of  the  colonies  furnished  troops  and  many 


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colonial  officers  participated  in  the  expedition.  This  4O-page 
journal  from  March  to  August  gives  interesting  details  of  the 
most  important  campaign  of  King  George's  war,  a  campaign 
regarding  which  there  is  constant  inquiry. 

For  the  closing  years  of  the  conflict  with  the  French  this  library 
has  abundant  material  for  the  investigator.  The  manuscripts  of 
Sir  William  Johnson  and  of  Col.  John  Bradstreet  contain  a  store 
of  information,  and  there  are  eleven  orderly  books  or  diaries  for  the 
same  period.  Most  important  among  the  latter  are  such  volumes 
as  the  diary  kept  at  Crown  Point  from  May  to  November,  1759, 
and  the  orderly  book  of  William  Henshaw  for  the  expedition  against 
Fort  Edward  during  the  same  year.  Numerous  miscellaneous  man- 
uscripts supplement  these  three  valuable  groups  of  papers.  Of 
especial  importance  among  these  are  the  list  of  officers  killed, 
wounded,  or  injured  at  the  time  of  Sir  Edward  Braddock's 
defeat  at  Fort  Duquesne,  and  letters  of  Robert  Orme  and  Admiral 
Augustus  Keppel  descriptive  of  the  same  engagement. 

The  library's  collection  of  Revolutionary  War  material  is 
extensive.  It  includes  a  group  of  nearly  40  orderly  books,  letter 
books,  and  similar  material,  six  volumes  of  miscellaneous  manu- 
scripts, and  many  letters  of  noted  civil  and  military  leaders  in  that 
war.  Chief  among  the  orderly  books  are  the  Henshaw  series 
covering  the  earlier  campaigns  about  Boston  and  New  York,  the 
Saratoga  series  for  the  campaign  of  the  northern  army  under 
Generals  Schuyler  and  Gates,  June-November,  1777,  and  the  ser- 
ies extending  over  the  occupancy  of  Newburgh  by  the  main  army, 
1782-1783.  Among  the  miscellaneous  manuscripts  are  numerous 
military  papers  of  Brig.  Gen.  John  Nixon  and  Maj.  Gen.  William 
Heath,  the  correspondence  of  Stephen  Kemble,  John  Beatty,  and 
Egbert  Benson  as  to  British  and  Loyalist  prisoners,  and  various 
petitions  from  single  regiments  or  groups  of  officers  to  their  respec- 
tive states  or  to  the  Continental  Congress.  Perhaps  as  interesting 
a  manuscript  as  any  in  the  collection  is  the  reply  of  the  garrison 
at  West  Point  to  Washington's  farewell  address,  Nov.  10,  1783. 
Important  autographs  of  leaders  in  Congress  or  on  the  field  give 
additional  value  to  this  group  of  papers.  Of  this  character  are 
letters  of  Adams,  Hancock,  Jefferson,  and  Sherman  in  Congress, 
Livingston,  Rodney,  and  Trumbull  at  state  capitols,  and  Washing- 


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ton,  Greene,  Schuyler,  and  Lord  Stirling  in  the  field.  Gates, 
Conway,  Charles  Lee,  and  Arnold  represent  another  class  of  mili- 
tary men,  while  various  British  orderly  books,  autographs  of 
Burgoyne,  Carleton,  and  others  unfold  the  history  of  the  English 
side  of  the  war.  The  many  manuscripts  throwing  light  on  the 
outbreak  of  the  war  are  well  illustrated  by  the  Salem  Non-impor- 
tation Agreement  of  1768,  containing  83  signatures,  and  numerous 
papers  regarding  the  Society  of  the  Cincinnati  picture  one  conse- 
quence of  the  war  considered  at  the  time  as  the  birth  of  an 
aristocracy. 

The  manuscripts  in  the  Society's  library  best  illustrating  the 
movement  toward  national  unity  date  from  1783  to  1820.  For 
this  period  its  collections  are  especially  strong.  The  suppression 
of  internal  dissent  in  New  England  is  covered  by  the  papers  relat- 
ing to  Shays'  rebellion,  and  the  growing  life  in  that  section  is  well 
shown  in  the  Bentley  manuscripts,  1783-1819.  This  collection 
comprises  38  bound  volumes  of  accounts  and  notebooks,  includ- 
ing a  i3-volume  diary,  and  over  1500  miscellaneous  letters.  Among 
these  manuscripts  are  numerous  letters  from  the  heads  of  important 
communities,  societies,  and  institutions.  Of  these  there  may  be 
cited  manuscripts  from  heads  of  various  departments  of  the  national 
government,  from  leaders  in  cities  and  states  of  New  England, 
and  from  educational  institutions  such  as  Harvard  University, 
Notable  autographs  are  those  of  Josiah  Bartlett,  Joseph  Story, 
Josiah  Quincy,  Joseph  Willard,  James  Winthrop,  and  Edward 
Everett. 

The  growth  of  American  independence  upon  the  sea  is  hinted 
at  in  letters  from  William  Bainbridge,  various  members  of  the 
Crowninshield  family,  and  Robert  Rantoul,  found  in  the  Bentley 
collection,  but  prominent  for  this  phase  of  national  growth  are  other 
manuscripts  in  the  library.  Here  is  a  letter  book  of  Isaac  Hull 
touching  his  work  for  America  in  freeing  her  from  the  payment  of 
tribute  to  the  Barbary  States,  as  well  as  a  series  of  autograph 
copies  of  letters  of  Samuel  Barron  for  the  same  period.  Other 
noteworthy  papers  of  the  time  are  quarter  books  of  the  Constitution 
and  Essex  giving  lists  of  the  crews  of  those  vessels  with  their  sta- 
tions on  board  in  case  of  action  with  the  enemy.  Numerous 


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manuscripts  scattered  through  other  groups  of  material  aid  in 
illustrating  the  growth  of  an  American  navy,  that  branch  of 
military  activity  which  best  represents  the  ideal  of  a  united 
nation. 

Turning  from  the  east  to  the  west  the  Society  has  its  valuable 
collection  of  Craigie  papers.  In  this  six-volume  collection  are 
manuscripts  descriptive  of  the  settlement  of  the  Ohio  valley  and 
the  rise  and  fortunes  of  the  Scioto  Company  organized  for  that 
purpose.  Important  manuscripts  give  Washington's  ideas  for  a 
canal  or  road  to  the  Ohio,  news  from  settlements  in  Kentucky, 
and  negotiations  with  Robert  Morris  for  the  acquisition  of  the 
Genesee  lands  in  western  New  York.  A  large  portion  of  these 
papers  discuss  the  question  of  European  immigration  into  the 
western  territory,  the  best  location  for  the  settlement  of  the  people 
received,  and  the  necessity  that  they  understand  American  ideas 
and  so  prove  a  source  of  strength  and  not  of  weakness  to  their  new 
country. 

Another  choice  group  of  manuscripts  in  the  archives  of  this 
Society  is  the  Burr  collection  covering  not  only  Burr's  life  but 
containing  numerous  additions  made  by  Mrs.  John  Davis  from 
whom  this  Society  acquired  these  papers.  Here  are  found  letters 
of  Washington,  Jefferson,  Hamilton,  Sherman,  and  Morris  of  the 
earlier  statesmen  of  the  nation,  and  of  Madison,  Monroe,  John 
Quincy  Adams,  Dallas,  Cass,  and  Everett  of  a  later  time.  Mention 
may  here  be  made  also  of  the  biographical  collection  prepared  by 
Samuel  Jennison  and  consisting  of  short  sketches  of  men  prominent 
during  this  period  of  United  States  history. 

For  the  history  of  America  from  1815  to  1850  the  Society  has 
the  Lincoln,  Merrick,  and  John  Davis  collections.  The  Lincoln 
papers  are  in  two  parts.  In  the  first  is  the  correspondence  of  the 
two  Levi  Lincolns,  father  and  son,  national  and  state  officials,  with 
four  volumes  of  correspondence  of  Enoch  Lincoln,  Governor  of 
Maine.  In  the  second  part  are  the  manuscripts  of  William 
Lincoln,  the  historian,  consisting  of  several  thousand  letters  more 
local  in  character.  The  whole  collection  therefore  touches  local, 
state,  and  national  affairs,  showing  the  changes  in  all  three  fields. 

The  Merrick  manuscripts  throw  much  light  on  the  Anti-Masonic 
Movement  of  1830,  and  closely  following  is  the  John  Davis  collec- 


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tion.  This  consists  of  the  correspondence  of  Davis,  notes  and 
plans  of  political  campaigns,  outlines  of  speeches,  a  few  legal 
arguments  and  numerous  letters  paying  tribute  to  the  character 
of  the  man.  Here  are  many  autograph  letters  from  the  leaders 
of  the  Whigs  —  Choate,  Clay,  Everett,  Seward,  Winthrop,  and 
Webster,  relating  mainly  to  national  affairs,  1830-1852.  Among 
the  important  single  documents  is  a  fifteen  page  discussion  by 
Davis  of  the  rise  of  the  slavery  problem  and  "the  Influence  of 
Slavery  upon  Free  Labor. " 

Among  the  latest  accessions  is  the  Salisbury  collection  consisting 
in  large  part  of  the  books  and  correspondence  of  the  business 
house  of  Samuel  and  Stephen  Salisbury  of  Boston  and  Worcester. 
These  manuscripts  are  especially  valuable  because  of  the  light 
thrown  upon  economic  conditions  and  trade  relations  in  New 
England  during  the  i8th  and  iQth  centuries.  Numbering  some 
10,000  letters  and  documents  the  collection  is  destined  to  prove  of 
usefulness  to  those  who  are  studying  the  social  and  business  life  of 
the  New  England  of  a  century  ago. 

Such  are  the  collections  of  manuscripts  in  the  American  Anti- 
quarian Society.  All  have  not  been  mentioned,  but  the  leading 
characteristics  of  the  whole  have  been  summarized.  It  remains 
only  to  add  that  the  Society  recognizes  its  privilege  of  custody. 
Realizing  that  no  library  has  any  right  to  the  possession  of  valuable 
manuscripts  unless  it  shall  make  provision  for  the  safeguarding  as 
well  as  the  use  of  these  priceless  records,  the  Society  is  preparing 
in  its  new  home  a  department  with  an  equipment  second  to  none 
for  the  preservation  of  manuscripts  intrusted  to  its  care. 

During  the  past  two  and  one  half  years  it  has  made  long  strides 
toward  the  making  of  its  collections  available  for  the  use  of  his- 
torical students.  It  has  arranged  its  35,000  manuscripts  in 
groups  centering  about  a  person,  a  subject  or  a  period  of  time. 
It  has  gone  further.  There  is  in  progress  a  thorough  card  cata- 
logue or  calendar  of  the  individual  manuscripts  in  its  keeping. 
Toward  the  accomplishment  of  this  purpose  eleven  groups  of  manu- 
scripts have  been  covered,  over  4000  individual  card  entries  have 
been  made,  and  in  the  case  of  several  groups  whose  respective 
manuscripts  have  been  calendared  the  entire  collection  has  been 
indexed  and  the  completed  work  published.  In  addition  to  this, 


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some  of  the  more  noteworthy  of  the  manuscripts  in  the  Society's 
archives  have  been  published  in  full. 

In  these  various  ways  the  Antiquarian  Society  has  opened  its 
stores  to  the  public.  The  results  can  but  mark  a  distinct  addition 
to  the  resources  upon  which  historians  are  able  to  rely.  Whether 
or  not  this  Society  shall  have  a  larger  field  of  usefulness  rests  with 
the  owners  of  manuscripts  too  important  to  be  kept  under  private 
stewardship.  It  is  for  the  custodians  of  these  records  to  recognize 
and  make  use  of  the  facilities  which  the  American  Antiquarian 
Society  has  provided  for  the  safeguarding  and  classification  of 
material  instrusted  to  its  care.  Well  wishers  of  the  Society  can  in 
addition  provide  it  with  means  for  carrying  on  the  work  of  indexing 
and  publishing  its  manuscript  treasures,  thus  providing  that  mea- 
sure of  use  most  helpful  to  the  historians  and  biographers  of  the 
nation  and  reflecting  most  credit  upon  the  custodians  of  the  sources 
of  American  history. 

MUSEUM. 

In  the  early  days  of  the  Society  one  of  the  prominent  features 
of  its  work  was  the  collecting  of  anthropological  specimens,  objects 
of  aboriginal  handiwork,  and  relics  of  colonial  life.  The  result 
was  a  large  collection  of  such  objects,  unarranged  and  worthless 
for  comprehensive  study.  The  establishing  of  the  Smithsonian 
Institution,  the  Peabody  Museum  at  Cambridge,  and  such  insti- 
tutions rendered  the  work  of  this  Society  in  those  directions  largely 
superfluous.  In  view  of  their  thoroughly  scientific  and  carefully 
arranged  exhibits,  the  Society  could  only  rejoice  that  that  portion 
of  its  labors  was  being  so  well  performed  by  bodies  whose  facilities 
for  collecting  were  beyond  all  comparison  superior.  The  founding 
of  a  local  historical  institution,  too,  made  a  much  more  suitable 
depository  for  local  relics.  Accordingly  by  vote  of  the  Society 
a  large  number  of  our  ethnological  specimens  were  transferred  to 
the  Peabody  Museum,  while  the  local  relics  were  turned  over  to  The 
Worcester  Society  of  Antiquity.  A  considerable  number  of  early 
specimens,  however,  were  retained  because  of  their  importance, 
and  the  most  important  of  the  historical  relics  committed  to  us 
in  the  past  were  saved  out  for  exhibition  purposes.  Among  the 
latter  are  the  Isaiah  Thomas  printing-press,  owned  for  many  years 


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by  the  founder  of  the  Society.  An  interesting  relic  is  one  of  the 
leaden  plates  buried  by  De  Celeron  in  1759  to  assert  the  claims  of 
French  jurisdiction  in  the  New  World.  This  plate  was  unearthed 
at  the  Muskingum  River  in  Ohio  and  was  presented  to  the  Society 
in  1827  by  Gov.  DeWitt  Clinton.  Other  valued  objects  are  Gov. 
John  Winthrop's  "  stone  pott  tipped  and  covered  with  a  silver 
Lydd";  Fitz-John  Winthrop's  sword  —  a  basket-hilted  blade  made 
by  Andrea  Ferrara;  the  Richard  Mather  chair;  the  "  Alabama 
Stone,"  a  presumed  relic  of  De  Soto's  expedition  of  1540,  with  the 
roughly  chiseled  words  "Hispan  et  Ind.  Rey";  and  a  box  of  the 
original  tea  picked  up  on  Dorchester  Neck  by  Rev.  Thaddeus  M. 
Harris  the  morning  after  the  cargoes  were  destroyed  and  by  him 
in  later  life  presented  to  the  Society.  In  the  new  building  all 
these  relics  will  be  shown  in  exhibition  cases  in  a  room  especially 
given  to  the  purpose. 

There  are  a  number  of  highly  valuable  pieces  of  furniture  in  the 
building  preserved  because  of  their  historic  associations  and  partly 
because  of  their  usefulness.  Among  them  should  be  mentioned 
the  John  Hancock  clock  —  one  of  the  tallest  and  finest  specimens 
existing  —  also  his  double-chair  and  his  business  desk,  the  Gov. 
Leverett  secretary,  the  Gov.  Belcher  secretary,  and  the  Gov.  Bow- 
doin  secretary.  These  fine  pieces  of  colonial  furniture  will  serve 
in  a  highly  appropriate  manner  to  ornament  the  new  building. 

PORTRAITS 

The  Society  possesses  several  portraits  which  have  been  recently 
undergoing  a  thorough  cleaning  and  repairing.  Among  them  are 
the  four  Mathers  —  Richard,  Increase,  Cotton,  and  Samuel  — 
Gov.  John  Endicott,  Gov.  John  Winthrop,  Gov.  John  Leverett, 
Rev.  John  Higginson,  and  Alexander  Humboldt.  Of  the  presidents 
of  the  Society  there  are  portraits  of  Isaiah  Thomas  by  Greenwood, 
Thomas  L.  Winthrop  by  Sully,  John  Davis  by  Billings,  Stephen 
Salisbury,  Sr.,  by  Huntington,  and  Stephen  Salisbury,  Jr.,  by 
Vinton.  The  portraits  lacking  of  past  presidents  are  those  of 
Edward  Everett,  George  Frisbie  Hoar,  and  Edward  Everett  Hale. 
There  are  two  excellent  portraits  of  former  librarians  of  the  Society 
-  Christopher  Columbus  Baldwin  by  Harding,  and  Samuel  Foster 
Haven  by  Custer. 


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PUBLICATIONS. 

The  publications  of  the  Society  comprise  two  series  —  the 
Transactions  and  the  Proceedings. 

The  Transactions,  more  properly  the  Transactions  and  Collec- 
tions, were  established  in  1820.  For  many  years  they  were  occa- 
sionally known  by  the  Sub-title  of  "  Archaeologia  Americana,'* 
which  misnomer,  however,  has  recently  been  dropped.  The  first 
volume  is  chiefly  given  over  to  Caleb  Atwater's  "Description 
of  the  Antiquities  of  Ohio  and  other  Western  States,"  valuable 
to-day  for  the  accuracy  of  its  text  and  plans.  The  volume  also 
includes  a  reprint  of  Hennepin's  "  Disco  very  of  the  Mississippi," 
Johnston's  "Indian  Tribes  of  Ohio,"  with  vocabularies,  Sheldon's 
"Account  of  the  Caraibs  of  the  Antilles,"  and  other  antiquarian 

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Volume  2  of  the  Transactions,  1836,  contains  Gallatin's  "Indian 
Tribes  of  North  America,"  a  comprehensive  work  and  especially 
useful  for  its  vocabularies,  and  Daniel  Gookin's  "Historical 
Account  of  the  Christian  Indians  of  New  England."  It  is  the 
rarest  volume  of  the  series,  since  part  of  the  edition  was  destroyed 
at  the  Stationers'  Hall  fire  in  Boston. 

Volume  3,  published  in  1857,  prints  the  Records  of  the  Company 
of  Massachusetts  Bay  from  1628  to  1630,  and  the  Diaries  of  John 
Hull,  with  their  interesting  portrayal  of  New  England  life  from 
1658  to  1682. 

Volume  4,  1860,  contains  "Original  Documents  illustrating  the 
history  of  the  Colony  of  Jamestown,"  and  the  "Narration  of  a 
Voyage  to  Spitzbergen  in  1613,"  and  reprints  Wingfield's  "  Dis- 
course of  Virginia,"  and  Josselyn's  "New  England's  Rarities 
Discovered." 

Volumes  5  and  6,  published  in  1874,  form  the  second  edition  of 
Thomas's  "History  of  Printing  in  America."  This  classic  of 
American  bibliography  is  here  increased  in  value  by  the  insertion 
of  the  author's  posthumous  "corrections  and  additions,"  by  fre- 
quent notes  and  appendices,  and  by  Haven's  Catalogue  of  Ameri- 
can publications,  1639-1775. 

Volume  7,  published  in  1885,  prints  the  Note-Book  of  Thomas 
Lechford,  1638-1641.  Containing  the  daily  entries  made  by  a 


20  HANDBOOK  OF  INFORMATION 

professional  lawyer  who  was  brought  into  contact  with  people  of 
all  classes,  it  throws  much  light  on  the  social  customs  and  political 
life  of  early  New  England  and  forms  one  of  the  most  valued  sources 
for  the  history  of  the  first  generation  in  Massachusetts. 

Volume  8,  issued  in  1901,  publishes  the  Diary  of  Christopher 
Columbus  Baldwin,  Librarian  of  the  American  Antiquarian 
Society,  1829-1835,  recording,  as  says  the  prefatory  note,  "a  pic- 
ture of  life  in  the  cultivated  society  of  a  shire  town  in  Massachu- 
setts three-quarters  of  a  century  ago,  and  the  jottings  of  an  earnest 
genealogist  and  antiquarian." 

Volumes  9  and  10,  issued  in  1909,  publish  the  Diary  of  Isaiah 
Thomas,  1805-1828.  The  work,  forms  a  notable  companion  to 
the  previous  volume,  and  being  the  journal  of  a  man  of  national 
reputation  and  diverse  interests,  it  assumes  more  than  local  value. 

Volume  u,  published  in  1909,  is  entitled  "  Manuscript  Records 
of  the  French  and  Indian  War,"  and  contains  a  calendar  of  the  Sir 
William  Johnson  manuscripts,  1755-1774,  the  text  in  full  of  certain 
Johnson  letters  of  1766-1769;  a  calendar  of  the  Col.  John  Brad- 
street  manuscripts,  1755-1773,'  a  calendar  of  a  series  of  miscel- 
laneous letters  on  the  war,  1754-1767;  and  the  Orderly  Book  and 
Journal  of  Lieut.  William  Henshaw,  1759.  This  volume  gives 
some  suggestion  of  the  wealth  of  manuscripts  in  the  possession  of 
the  Society. 

Volume  12,  in  press,  will  publish  the  Royal  Proclamations  con- 
cerning America,  1606-1783,  printed  from  the  originals  in  various 
archive  repositories  in  England. 

The  Proceedings  of  the  Society  have  been  published  regularly 
since  October,  1849.  Before  that  date  there  were  eleven  pam- 
phlets issued  in  the  form  of  Presidential  addresses,  Reports  on  the 
Condition  of  the  Society  or  By-Laws,  and  there  were  also  the  Pro- 
ceedings for  May  and  October,  1839,  and  May  and  October, 
1843.  Beginning  with  October,  1849,  there  has  been  an  issue  for 
each  semi-annual  meeting  of  the  Society,  including  the  business 
transactions  and  the  papers  read  at  the  meetings.  Beginning  with 
October,  1880,  a  "new  series"  of  Proceedings  has  been  published 
in  which  the  issues  for  three  successive  meetings  —  namely,  a 
year  and  a  half  —  make  up  a  volume  for  binding.  The  issue  for 
April,  1909,  completes  Volume  XIX  of  this  series. 


HANDBOOK  OF  INFORMATION  21 

In  this  long  series  of  Proceedings  are  to  be  found  many  papers 
and  monographs  of  much  importance.  A  selection  of  a  few  titles 
will  show  the  scope  of  the  papers: 

Notes  on  the  Laws  of  New  Hampshire,  by  Albert  H.  Hoyt. 

Burgoyne's  Surrender,  by  Chas.  Deane. 

Bibliography  of  Indian  dialects,  by  J.  H.  Trumbull. 

Many  papers  on  Mexican  dialects,  antiquities,  and  archaeology. 

Bibliography   of    Yucatan   and    Central   America,    by   A.    F. 
Bandelier. 

The  Office  of  Tithingman,  by  Herbert  B.  Adams. 

History  of  Witchcraft  in  Massachusetts,  by  George  H.  Moore. 

Archaeological  research  in  Yucatan,  by  Edward  H.  Thompson. 

Voluntary  System  in  the  Maintenance  of  Ministers,  by  Samuel 
S.  Green. 

Estimates  of  Population  in  the  American  Colonies,  by  Franklin 
B.  Dexter. 

Illustrated  Americana,  1493-1624,  and  of  the  Revolution,  by 
James  F.  Hunnewell. 

The  Navigation  Laws,  by  Edward  Channing. 

Literature  of  Witchcraft  in  New  England,  by  Justin  Winsor. 

Dr.  Saugrain's  Journal,  Ohio  River,  1788,  by  Eugene  F.  Bliss. 

Dress  and  Ornaments  of  American  Indians,  by  Lucien  Carr. 

Early  American  Broadsides,  by  Nathaniel  Paine. 

Early  New  England  -Catechisms,  by  Wilberforce  Eames. 

The  Andros  Records,  prepared  by  ^Robert  N.  Toppan. 

The  Roger  Sherman  Almanacs,  by  Victor  H.  Paltsits. 

The  Ohio  Valley  Press  before  1812,  by  Reuben  G.  Thwaites. 

Early  Spanish  Cartography  of  the  New  World,  by  Edward  L. 
Stevenson. 

In  most  cases,  papers  read  before  the  Society  have  been  reprinted 
in  "separate"  form.  The  number  of  copies  in  the  edition  has 
varied,  but  beginning  with  1909  the  number  of  reprints  will  be 
thirty  for  presentation  to  the  author,  and  thirty  for  the  use  of  the 
Society. 

There  have  been  but  few  minor  publications  issued  by  the 
Society  outside  of  the  Proceedings  proper.  A  complete  bibliog- 
raphy may  be  found  in  A.  P.  C.  Griffin's  Bibliography  of  Ameri- 


22  HANDBOOK  OF  INFORMATION 

can  Historical  Societies,  printed  in  the  American  Historical  Asso- 
ciation Report  for  1905,  volume  2.  A  "Partial  Index  to  the 
Proceedings,  1812-1880,"  by  Stephen  Salisbury,  was  printed  in 
1883,  and  a  summary  of  the  "Contents  of  the  Proceedings  1880- 
1903,"  compiled  by  Nathaniel  Paine,  was  printed  in  1905.  Men- 
tion should  also  be  made  of  the  printed  "Catalogue  of  Books  in 
the  Library  of  the  American  Antiquarian  Society,"  published 
in  1837. 

PRICE-LIST  OF  PUBLICATIONS. 

Transactions,  vol.    i $  2 . 50 

Transactions,  vol.    2  (out  of  print) 12 .00 

Transactions,  vol.    3 2 . 50 

Transactions,  vol.    4 2 . 50 

Transactions,  vol.    5 2 . 50 

Transactions,  vol.    6 2 . 50 

Transactions,  vol.    7 2 . 50 

Transactions,  vol.    8 2 . 50 

Transactions,  vol.    9 2 . 50 

Transactions,  vol.  10 2 . 50 

Transactions,  vol.  1 1 2 . 50 

Transactions,  vol.  12  (in  press) 2 . 50 

NOTE.  With  the  intention  of  giving  a  larger  circulation  to  its  publica- 
tions, the  Society  has  decided  to  place  only  a  nominal  price  on  its  volumes 
and  has  accordingly  issued  the  above  revised  price-list.  A  full  set  of  the 
Transactions  will  be  sold  for  $35.00,  or,  excluding  volume  2,  which  will 
probably  be  reprinted,  for  $25.00. 

Proceedings,  1856-1880  (semi-annual) each     $  .50 

Proceedings,  n.  s.  1880-1909  (semi-annual). .  .each        i.oo 

NOTE.  The  Proceedings  of  1839,  1843,  and  l849~i855  can  be  supplied 
only  in  part,  since  most  of  them  are  out  of  print.  The  new  series  of 
Proceedings,  beginning  with  1880,  includes  three  issues  in  a  volume. 
Vol.  XIX  of  this  series  is  completed  by  the  issue  for  April,  1009.  The 
price  per  volume  (three  numbers)  is  $2.50;  in  bound  form,  $3.00. 


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Miscellaneous  Publications. 

Catalogue  of  the  Library,  1837 $i  .00 

Address  by  Wm.  Paine,  1815 .50 

Address  by  Wm.  Bentley,  1816 .50 

Address  by  Isaac  Goodwin,  1820 .50 

Report  at  annual  meeting  of  1821 .50 

Separates,  reprints  from  Proceedings 50  to  i  .00 

NOTE.  Other  miscellaneous  publications,  as  listed  in  Griffin's  Bibli- 
ography, can  occasionally  be  supplied,  although  the  above  are  the  only 
items  of  which  there  is  any  quantity  in  stock. 

The  Society  also  has  for  sale  the  following  publications: 

Chandler  Genealogy,  by  George  Chandler,  1883.       $10.00 
Tracts  relating  to  the  Currency  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Bay,  1682-1720,  ed.  by  Andrew  McFar- 

land  Davis,  1902,  pp.  394 2.00 

The  Confiscation  of  John  Chandler's  Estate,  by 

Andrew  McFarland  Davis,  1903,  pp.  296 i  .50 

MEMBERSHIP. 

Membership  in  the  American  Antiquarian  Society  is  purely 
elective.  Limited  to  140  members  by  the  1831  by-laws,  which 
number  was  increased  to  175  in  1907,  it  has  always  been  compelled 
to  choose  carefully  in  its  elections.  Nearly  all  of  the  long  line  of 
historical  scholars  who  have  told  the  story  of  America's  past  have 
been  members  of  the  Society  and  gleaned  many  of  their  facts  from 
its  archives.  Bancroft,  Story,  Sparks,  Parkman,  Prescott,  Win- 
sor  —  have  been  members  and  have  taken  prominent  part  in 
the  meetings.  Of  the  scientists  can  be  named  Humboldt,  School- 
craft,  Gallatin,  Brinton.  The  membership  is  strictly  national 
in  its  scope.  Although  Massachusetts  is  largely  represented 
and  the  city  of  Worcester  provides  a  disproportionate  number  of 
members  in  order  to  administer  the  Society's  affairs,  yet  nearly 
one-third  of  the  membership  lies  outside  of  New  England. 

The  dues  for  members  were  originally  two  dollars  annually, 
but  this  was  amended  in  1814  so  as  to  apply  only  to  members 


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living  in  the  State  and  in  1819  was  discarded  entirely.  In  1878 
Society  voted  to  assess  annual  dues  of  five  dollars  on  all  New 
England  members  and  to  fix  upon  the  sum  of  five  dollars  as  an 
admission  fee  to  be  required  from  all  new  members.  This  is  the 
provision  in  force  according  to  the  present  by-laws.  The  payment 
of  fifty  dollars  relieves  a  New  England  member  of  all  annual  dues. 

MEETINGS. 

The  by-laws  provide  that  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Society 
shall  be  held  in  Worcester  on  the  third  Wednesday  in  October, 
and  that  the  semi-annual  meeting  shall  be  held  in  Boston  on  the 
third  Wednesday  in  April. 

The  1815  by-laws  provided  for  two  meetings  of  the  Society  — 
one  in  Boston  on  October  23,  "  the  day  on  which  Columbus  first 
discovered  America,"  and  the  other  in  Worcester  on  the  last 
Thursday  in  June.  The  1831  by-laws  required  that  the  annual 
meeting  of  October  23  should  be  held  in  Worcester  and  that  the 
Boston  meeting  should  be  on  the  last  Wednesday  in  May,  which 
day  had  for  many  years  previous  to  the  revision  of  the  Massa- 
chusetts constitution  been  appointed  for  the  organization  of  the 
government  of  the  Commonwealth,  In  1850,  however,  the  date 
of  the  meeting  was  changed  to  the  last  Wednesday  in  April.  In 
1855  the  day  of  the  annual  meeting  in  Worcester  was  changed 
from  October  23  to  October  21,  which  latter  date  it  was  decided 
more  nearly  approximated  the  anniversary  of  the  discovery  of 
America.  In  1906  the  present  by-laws  were  adopted  providing 
for  the  annual  meeting  in  Worcester  on  the  third  Wednesday  in 
October  and  for  the  semi-annual  meeting  in  Boston  on  the  third 
Wednesday  in  April. 

The  Boston  meetings  of  the  Society  were  held  at  the  Exchange 
Coffee  House  until  1835,  at  the  Tremont  House  from  1836  to  1847, 
at  the  hall  of  the  American  Academy  of  Arts  and  Sciences  from 
1848  to  1899,  and  at  the  building  of  the  Massachusetts  Historical 
Society  from  1900  since.  The  Worcester  meetings,  except  for 
the  early  meetings  in  the  "  mansion  house "  of  the  founder,  have 
always  been  held  in  the  library  building  of  the  Society. 


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NEW   BUILDING. 

With  the  increase  of  its  funds  through  the  bequest  from  Stephen 
Salisbury,  the  Society  was  able  in  1908  to  take  positive  steps 
regarding  the  erection  of  a  new  building.  Such  a  move  had  been 
long  contemplated.  The  library  had  been  steadily  increasing 
until  it  was  found  necessary  to  rent  quarters  in  a  nearby  building 
to  accommodate  the  overflow.  The  county  commissioners  more- 
over, had  stated  that  the  site  was  absolutely  necessary  in  the  near 
future  for  the  proposed  extension  to  the  court-house.  Acting  under 
the  advice  of  a  sub-committee,  therefore,  the  Society  purchased  a 
large  lot,  formerly  part  of  the  Salisbury  estate,  bounded  by  Park 
avenue,  Salisbury  street  and  Regent  street.  With  an  area  of  sixty 
thousand  square  feet,  bounded  by  streets  on  three  sides  and  in  the 
midst  of  an  attractive  residential  neighborhood,  the  site  has  met 
with  general  approval. 

A  building  committee,  consisting  of  the  President  of  the  Society, 
Dr.  Edmund  A.  Engler  and  Dr.  Samuel  B.  Woodward,  was 
appointed  and  in  1908  secured  as  architects  Messrs.  Winslow, 
Bigelow  and  Wadsworth  and  R.  Clipston  Sturgis  of  Boston.  The 
building  planned  is  a  two-story  structure  of  brick,  with  marble 
trimmings  and  a  marble  dome.  The  portico,  with  its  marble 
columns,  is  modelled  after  the  entrance  of  the  first  structure  of  the 
Society  built  in  1820.  The  first  floor  includes  a  large  reading 
and  meeting-room,  work-rooms  and  book  alcoves.  On  the 
second  floor  are  the  exhibition  rooms,  manuscript-room,  and  map 
and  print-room.  In  the  rear  is  a  five-tier  stack  with  a  capacity 
for  160,000  volumes  of  books  and  15,000  volumes  of  newspapers. 
The  building  has  a  total  capacity  of  about  250,000  volumes,  and 
the  lot  is  sufficiently  large  to  allow  the  erection  of  additional  book- 
stacks. 

The  corner  stone  of  the  new  library  was  laid  on  October  20,  1909, 
with  an  historical  address  by  Charles  Francis  Adams  and  a  descrip- 
tion of  the  building  by  President  Lincoln.     It  will  be  ready  for 
occupancy  in  October,  1910. 


26  HANDBOOK  OF  INFORMATION 

FUNDS. 

The  funds  of  the  Society  in  October,  1909,  amounted  to  $451,000, 
of  which  the  funds  for  books  amounted  to  about  $45,000,  for 
publishing  to  $32,000  and  for  bookbinding  to  $7,500.  Of  the 
residue  about  $120,000,  in  addition  to  the  amount  to  be  derived 
from  the  sale  of  the  present  property  to  the  county  court  com- 
missioners, must  be  set  aside  for  the  new  building.  The  Society, 
therefore,  although  it  has  of  late  been  provided  with  sufficient 
income,  as  soon  as  it  has  met  the  cost  of  what  has  been  an  impera- 
tive call  for  a  larger  and  safer  building,  must  look  to  the  generosity 
of  its  members  to  enable  it  to  continue  the  good  record  of  the  past 
two  years. 

A  fund  is  to  be  raised  to  replace  the  amount  expended  for  the 
new  building.  The  loss  of  $6,000  a  year  from  our  present  income, 
caused  by  converting  productive  stocks  into  non-productive  plant, 
would  mean  the  abandonment  of  many  of  our  intended  plans.  It 
would  mean  that  our  book  purchases  must  be  curtailed,  that  the 
admirable  work  now  being  done  in  cataloguing  the  manuscripts 
would  be  given  up,  and  that  we  could  not  enter  into  competition 
with  other  large  libraries  in  purchasing  newspapers  to  complete 
our  files. 

At  the  annual  meeting  in  October  1909,  the  Society  voted  to 
appoint  a  committee  to  solicit  a  Centennial  Fund  of  one  hundred 
thousand  dollars  for  the  general  purposes  of  the  Society,  and  special 
funds,  totalling  an  additional  one  hundred  thousand  dollars, 
for  the  collecting  and  preserving  of  newspapers,  for  the  acquiring 
and  cataloging  of  manuscripts,  for  the  acquiring  of  local  histories 
and  genealogies,  and  for  the  issuing  of  publications.  President 
Lincoln  said  in  his  annual  address,  "If  such  funds  are  raised  the 
members  will  be  astounded  to  find  how  soon  we  can  make  this 
the  great  historical  library  of  the  country  for  matters  pertaining  to 
the  history  of  the  Western  Hemisphere.  To-day,  poor  in  money  as 
we  have  been,  our  library  is  so  rich  in  material  that  no  historical 
writer  can  afford  to  neglect  it.  All  we  wish  is  the  means  to  complete 
what  others  have  so  well  begun." 


OFFICERS 

OF  THE 

Hmerican  Hntiquarian  Society 

OCTOBER  20,  1909. 


WALDO  LINCOLN,  A.B.,  of  Worcester,  Mass. 

IDfce^lPresfdents. 

SAMUEL  ABBOTT  GREEN,  LL.D.,  of  Boston,  Mass. 
ANDREW  McFARLAND  DAVIS,  A.M.,  of  Cambridge,  Mass. 

Councillors. 

NATHANIEL  PAINE,  A.M.,  of  Worcester,  Mass. 
SAMUEL  SWETT  GREEN,  A.M.,  of  Worcester,  Mass. 
CHARLES  AUGUSTUS  CHASE,  A.M.,  of  Worcester,  Mass. 
EDWARD  LIVINGSTON  DAVIS,  A.M.,  of  Worcester,  Mass. 
GRANVILLE  STANLEY  HALL,  LL.D.,  of  Worcester,  Mass. 
WILLIAM  BABCOCK  WEEDEN,  A.M.,  of  Providence,  R.I. 
JAMES  PHINNEY  BAXTER,  Lrrr.D.,  of  Portland,  Me. 
EDMUND  ARTHUR  ENGLER,  LL.D.,  of  Worcester,  Mass. 
SAMUEL  UTLEY,  LL.B.,  of  Worcester,  Mass. 
ARTHUR  PRENTICE  RUGG,  LL.D.,  of  Worcester,  Mass. 

Secretary  for  foreign  Correspondence, 
FRANKLIN  BOWDITCH  DEXTER,  Lixr.D.,  of  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Secretary  for  domestic  Correspondence, 
CHARLES  FRANCIS  ADAMS,  LL.D.,  of  Lincoln,  Mass. 

"Recording  Secretary. 
GEORGE  PARKER  WINSHIP,  A.M.,  of  Providence,  R.I. 

{Treasurer. 
AUGUSTUS  GEORGE  BULLOCK,  A.M.,  of  Worcester,  Mass. 

^Librarian. 

CLARENCE  SAUNDERS  BRIGHAM,  A.M.,  of  Worcester,  Mass. 

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FOREIGN   MEMBERS. 


CANADA. 
NAME.  RESIDENCE. 

GOLDWIN  SMITH,  D.C.L Toronto. 

NARCISSE  EUTROPE  DIONNE,  LL.D Quebec. 

CHILI. 
JOSE  TORIBIO  MEDINA Santiago  de  Chili. 

FRANCE. 

HENRY  VIGNAUD Paris. 

PIERRE  EMILE  LEVASSEUR,  Liir.D Paris. 

GERMAN  EMPIRE. 

OTTO  KELLER,  Pn.D Prague. 

JOHANNES  CONRAD,  LL.D Halle. 

GREAT  BRITAIN. 

JAMES  BRYCE,  D.C.L London. 

JOHN  BEDDOE,  LL.D Bradford-on-Avon. 

CHARLES  HARDING  FIRTH,  LL.D Oxford. 

LORD  AVEBURY,  D.C.L London. 

HUBERT  HALL,  F.S.A London. 

ARTHUR  HERBERT  CHURCH,  D.Sc Shelsley. 

HOLLAND. 
JOHANN  CHRISTOPH  VOLLGRAFF,  L.H.D Utrecht. 

MEXICO. 

RODULFO  GREGORIO  CANTON Merida,  Yucatan. 

EDWARD  HERBERT  THOMPSON Merida,  Yucatan. 

NICOLAS  LEON,  PH.D Mexico. 

DAVID   CASARES,  A.B Merida,  Yucatan. 

GENARO  GARCIA Mexico. 

NORWAY. 
Capt.  ROALD  AMUNDSEN Christiania. 

PORTUGAL. 

Louis  HENRY  AYME Lisbon. 

BERNARDINO  MACHADO Coimbra. 

RUSSIA. 
PAVEL  GAVRILOVITCH  VINOGRADOFF,  D.C.L Moscow. 

SPAIN. 

MARCO  XIMENES  DE  LA  ESPADA. . .'. Madrid. 

JUSTO  ZARAGOZA Madrid. 

CRISTOBAL  COLON,  DUKE  OF  VERAGUA Madrid. 

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RESIDENT    MEMBERS. 


NAME.  RESIDENCE. 

fCHARLES  FRANCIS  ADAMS,  LL.D Lincoln,  Mass. 

GEORGE  BURTON  ADAMS,  Lixx.D New  Haven,  Conn. 

HENRY  ADAMS,  LL.D Washington,  D.C. 

HERMAN  VANDENBURG  AMES,  Pn.D Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Rev.  JOSEPH  ANDERSON,  D.D Woodmont,  Conn. 

CHARLES  MCLEAN  ANDREWS,  Pn.D Baltimore,  Md. 

JAMES  BURRILL  ANGELL,  LL.D Ann  Arbor,  Mich. 

EDWARD  EVERETT  AYER Chicago,  111. 

JAMES  BOURNE  AYER,  M.D Boston,  Mass. 

fSiMEON  EBEN  BALDWIN,  LL.D New  Haven,  Conn. 

HUBERT  HOWE  BANCROFT,  A.M San  Francisco,  Cal. 

ADOLPHE  FRANCOIS  BANDELIER Highland,  111. 

fEDMUND  MILLS  BARTON Worcester,  Mass. 

JAMES  PHINNEY  BAXTER,  Lirr.D Portland,  Me. 

WILLIAM  BEER New  Orleans,  La. 

ALEXANDER  GRAHAM  BELL,  LL.D Washington,  D.C. 

JOHN  SHAW  BILLINGS,  D.C.L New  York,  N.Y. 

HIRAM  BINGHAM,  Pn.D New  Haven,  Conn. 

fWiLLiAM  KEENEY  BIXBY St.  Louis,  Mo. 

•(•FRANCIS  BLAKE,  A.M Weston,  Mass. 

GEORGE  HUBBARD  BLAKESLEE,  Pn.D Worcester,  Mass. 

EUGENE  FREDERICK  BLISS,  A.M Cincinnati,  O. 

FRANZ  BOAS,  Pn.D New  York,  N.Y. 

•J-CHARLES  PICKERING  BOWDITCH,  A.M Boston,  Mass. 

fCLARENCE  WINTHROP  BOWEN,  Pn.D New  York,  N.Y. 

CLARENCE  SAUNDERS  BRIGHAM,  A.M Worcester,  Mass. 

ROBERT  ALONZO  BROCK Richmond,  Va. 

JAMES  WILLSON  BROOKS,  A.M Petersham,  Mass. 

AUGUSTUS  GEORGE  BULLOCK,  A.M Worcester,  Mass. 

GEORGE  LINCOLN  BURR,  LL.D Ithaca,  N.Y. 

CLARENCE  MONROE  BURTON,  B.S Detroit,  Mich. 

LUCIEN  CARR,  A.M Cambridge,  Mass. 

RALPH  CHARLES  HENRY  CATTERALL,  Pn.D Ithaca,  N.Y. 

ALEXANDER  FRANCIS  CHAMBERLAIN,  Pn.D Worcester,  Mass. 

fEDWARD  CHANNING,  Pn.D Cambridge,  Mass. 

ICHARLES  AUGUSTUS  CHASE,  A.M Worcester,  Mass. 

REUBEN  COLTON,  A.B Worcester,  Mass. 

SAMUEL  MORRIS  CONANT Pawtucket,  R.I. 

DELORAINE  PENDRE  COREY Maiden,  Mass. 

HENRY  WINCHESTER  CUNNINGHAM Manchester,  Mass. 

t  ANDREW  MCFARLAND  DAVIS,  A.M. Cambridge,  Mass. 

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30  RESIDENT  MEMBERS. 

NAME.  RESIDENCE. 

•{•EDWARD  LIVINGSTON  DAVIS,  A.M Worcester,  Mass. 

HORACE  DAVIS,  LL.D San  Francisco,  Cal. 

•{•FRANCIS  HENSHAW  DEWEY,  A.M Worcester,  Mass. 

•{•FRANKLIN  BOWDITCH  DEXTER,  LITT.D New  Haven,  Conn. 

ROLAND  BURRAGE  DIXON,  PH.D Cambridge,  Mass. 

FRANK  FARNHAM  DRESSER,  A.M Worcester,  Mass. 

CLYDE  AUGUSTUS  DUNIWAY,  PH.D Missoula,  Mont. 

THEODORE  FRELINGHUYSEN  DWIGHT Boston,  Mass. 

WILBERFORCE  EAMES,  A.M New  York,  N.Y. 

•{•HENRY  HERBERT  EDES,  A.M Cambridge,  Mass. 

EDMUND  ARTHUR  ENGLER,  LL.D Worcester,  Mass. 

WILLIAM  CURTIS  FARABEE,  PH.D Cambridge,  Mass. 

MAX  FARRAND,  Pn.D New  Haven,  Conn. 

Rev.  GEORGE  PARK  FISHER,  LL.D New  Haven,  Conn. 

WILLIAM  TROWBRIDGE  FORBES,  B.A Worcester,  Mass. 

WORTHINGTON  CHAUNCEY  FORD,  A.M Boston,  Mass. 

ALCEE  FORTIER,  LITT.D New  Orleans,  La. 

•{•WILLIAM  EATON  FOSTER,  LITT.D Providence,  R.I. 

GEORGE  EBENEZER  FRANCIS,  M.D Worcester,  Mass. 

GEORGE  PIERCE  GARRISON,  Pn.D Austin,  Texas. 

Rev.  AUSTIN  SAMUEL  GARVER,  A.M Worcester,  Mass. 

•{•FREDERICK  LEWIS  GAY,  A.B Brookline,  Mass. 

EDWARD  HOOKER  GILBERT,  A.B Ware,  Mass. 

JOHN  GREEN,  LL.D St.  Louis,  Mo. 

fSAMUEL  ABBOTT  GREEN,  LL.D Boston,  Mass. 

•{•SAMUEL  SWETT  GREEN,  A.M Worcester,  Mass. 

CHARLES  PELHAM  GREENOUGH,  A.B Brookline,  Mass. 

EDWIN  AUGUSTUS  GROSVENOR,  LL.D Amherst,  Mass. 

LEWIS  WINTERS  GUNCKEL,  Pn.B Dayton,  O. 

Rev.  EDWARD  HENRY  HALL,  D.D Cambridge,  Mass. 

GRANVTLLE  STANLEY  HALL,  LL.D Worcester,  Mass. 

PETER  JOSEPH  HAMILTON,  A.M Mobile,  Ala. 

WILLIAM  HARDEN Savannah,  Ga. 

ALBERT  BUSHNELL  HART,  LL.D Cambridge,  Mass. 

•{•GEORGE  HENRY  HAYNES,  PH.D Worcester,  Mass. 

HENRY  WILLIAMSON  HAYNES,  A.M Boston,  Mass. 

BENJAMIN  THOMAS  HILL,  A.B Worcester,  Mass. 

DON  GLEASON  HILL,  LL.B Dedham,  Mass. 

FREDERICK  WEBB  HODGE Washington,  D.C. 

WILLIAM  HENRY  HOLMES .Washington,  D.C. 

ALBERT  HARRISON  HOYT,  A.M Boston,  Mass. 

CHARLES  HENRY  HULL,  PH.D Ithaca,  N.Y. 

JAMES  FROTHINGHAM  HUNNEWELL,  A.M Boston,  Mass. 

JOHN  FRANKLIN  JAMESON,  LL.D Washington,  D.C. 

Rev.  HENRY  FITCH  JENKS,  A.M Canton,  Mass. 

EDWARD  FRANCIS  JOHNSON,  A.B Woburn,  Mass. 

HENRY  PHELPS  JOHNSTON,  A.M New  York,  N.Y. 

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RESIDENT  MEMBERS.  31 

NAME.  RESIDENCE. 

WILLIAM  VAIL  KELLEN,  LL.D Boston,  Mass. 

FREDERICK  JOHN  KINGSBURY,  LL.D ; Waterbury,  Conn. 

•{•LEONARD  PARKER  KINNICUTT,  S.D Worcester,  Mass. 

•{•LINCOLN  NEWTON  KINNICUTT Worcester,  Mass. 

GEORGE  LYMAN  KITTREDGE,  LL.D Cambridge,  Mass. 

Rev.  SHEPHERD  KNAPP,  A.B Worcester,  Mass. 

ALFRED  L.  KROEBER,  Pn.D San  Francisco,  Cal. 

WILLIAM  COOLIDGE  LANE,  A.B Cambridge,  Mass. 

fRt.  Rev.  WILLIAM  LAWRENCE,  D.C.L Boston,  Mass. 

FRANCIS  HENRY  LEE Salem,  Mass. 

•{•WALDO  LINCOLN,  A.B Worcester,  Mass. 

Col.  WILLIAM  ROSCOE  LIVERMORE,  U.S.A Boston,  Mass. 

•{•HENRY  CABOT  LODGE,  LL.D Nahant,  Mass. 

ARTHUR  LORD,  A.B Plymouth,  Mass. 

t  JOSEPH  FLORIMOND  LOUBAT,  LL.D New  York,  N.Y. 

Rev.  WILLIAM  DELoss  LOVE,  Pn.D Hartford,  Conn. 

f  ABBOTT  LAWRENCE  LOWELL,  LL.D Boston,  Mass. 

{FRANCIS  CABOT  LOWELL,  A.B Boston,  Mass. 

WILLIAM  DENISON  LYMAN,  A.M Walla  Walla,  Wash. 

SAMUEL  WALKER  McCALL,  LL.D Winchester,  Mass. 

WILLIAM  MACDONALD,  LL.D Providence,  R.I. 

ANDREW  CUNNINGHAM  MCLAUGHLIN,  L.L.B Chicago,  111. 

JOHN  BACH  MCMASTER,  LL.D Philadelphia,  Pa. 

FRANCIS  ANDREW  MARCH,  D.C.L Easton,  Pa. 

HENRY  ALEXANDER  MARSH Worcester,  Mass. 

ALBERT  MATTHEWS,  A.B Boston,  Mass. 

EDWIN  DOAK  MEAD Boston,  Mass. 

THOMAS  CORWIN  MENDENHALL,  LL.D Worcester,  Mass. 

JOHN  McKiNSTRY  MERRIAM,  A.B Framingham,  Mass. 

fRev.  DANIEL  MERRIMAN,  D.D Worcester,  Mass. 

•{•ROGER  BIGELOW  MERRIMAN,  Pn.D .Cambridge,  Mass. 

CLARENCE  BLOOMFIELD  MOORE,  Pn.D Philadelphia,  Pa. 

ANSON  DANIEL  MORSE,  LL.D Amherst,  Mass. 

EDWARD  SYLVESTER  MORSE,  Pn.D Salem,  Mass. 

WILFRED  HAROLD  MUNRO,  A.M Providence,  R.I. 

WILLIAM  NELSON,  A.M Paterson,  N.J. 

t  CHARLES  LEMUEL  NICHOLS,  M.D Worcester,  Mass. 

FREDERICK  ALBION  OBER Hackensack,  N.J. 

Rev.  JOHN  O'Dowo,  A.B Portland,  Me. 

HERBERT  LEVI  OSGOOD,  Pn.D New  York,  N.Y. 

THOMAS  McADORY  OWEN,  LL.D Montgomery,  Ala. 

NATHANIEL  PAINE,  A.M Worcester,  Mass. 

VICTOR  HUGO  PALTSITS Albany,  N.Y. 

STEPHEN  DENNISON  PEET,  Pn.D Salem,.  Mass. 

FREDERICK  WARD  PUTNAM,  S.D Cambridge,  Mass. 

HERBERT  PUTNAM,  LL.D Washington,  D.C. 

t  JAMES  FORD  RHODES,  LL.D Boston,  Mass. 

•{•FRANKLIN  PIERCE  RICE Worcester,  Mass. 

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32  RESIDENT  MEMBERS. 

NAME.  RESIDENCE. 

ABBOTT  LAWRENCE  ROTCH,  A.M Boston,  Mass. 

f  ARTHUR  PRENTICE  RUGG,  LL.D Worcester,  Mass. 

•J-ELIAS  HARLOW  RUSSELL Worcester,  Mass. 

MARSHALL  HOWARD  SAVTLLE New  York,  N.Y. 

JAMES  SCHOULER,  LL.D Intervale,  N.H. 

ALBERT  SHAW,  LL.D New  York,  N.Y. 

,     CHARLES  CARD  SMITH,  A.M Boston,  Mass. 

JUSTIN  HARVEY  SMITH,  A.M Boston,  Mass. 

WILLIAM  ADDISON  SMITH,  A.B Worcester,  Mass. 

EZRA  SCOLLAY  STEARNS,  A.M Fitchburg,  Mass. 

•j-Rev.  CALVIN  STEBBINS,  A.B Framingham,  Mass. 

EDWARD  LUTHER  STEVENSON,  Pn.D New  Brunswick,  N.  J. 

HANNIS  TAYLOR,  LL.D Mobile,  Ala. 

ALLEN  CLAPP  THOMAS,  A.M Haverford,  Pa. 

REUBEN  GOLD  THWAITES,  LL.D Madison,  Wis. 

ALFRED  MARSTON  TOZZER,  Pn.D Cambridge,  Mass. 

FREDERICK  JACKSON  TURNER,  Pn.D Madison,  Wis. 

JULIUS  HERBERT  TUTTLE Dedham,  Mass. 

DANIEL  BERKELEY  UPDIKE Boston,  Mass. 

fSAMUEL  UTLEY,  LL.B Worcester,  Mass. 

Rev.  CHARLES  STUART  VEDDER,  LL.D Charleston,  S.C. 

Rt.  Rev.  ALEXANDER  HAMILTON  VINTON,  D.D Springfield,  Mass. 

JOSEPH  BURBEEN  WALKER,  A.M Concord,  N.H. 

Rev.  WILLISTON  WALKER,  D.D New  Haven,  Conn. 

CHARLES  GRENFILL  WASHBURN,  A.B Worcester,  Mass. 

Rev.  THOMAS  FRANKLIN  WATERS,  A.M Ipswich,  Mass. 

fWiLLiAM  BABCOCK  WEEDEN,  A.M , Providence,  R.I. 

ANDREW  DICKSON  WHITE,  D.C.L Ithaca,  N.Y. 

JAMES  LYMAN  WHITNEY,  M.A Cambridge,  Mass. 

fGEORGE  PARKER  WINSHIP,  A.M Providence,  R.I. 

THOMAS  LINDALL  WINTHROP Boston^  Mass. 

HENRY  ERNEST  WOODS,  A.M Boston,  Mass. 

SAMUEL  BAYARD  WOODWARD,  M.D Worcester,  Mass. 

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